A GLOBAL GLANCE AT COVID-19 EDUCATION PROCESS AND CONSIDERING TURKEY’S COVID-19 RESPONSE

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease which spread around the world from China where it emerged in the early months of 2020, is a severe, fatal, and highly infectious disease mostly resulting in severe acute respiratory and related syndrome. In this context, following the school closures on a global scale, millions of students needed to catch up with the rest of the curriculum on-line or continue learning distantly under the guidance of their instructors through on-line learning tools, do various on-line assignments from other on-line sources alternatively depending on their preferences. The study aims at detailing the Covid-19 process for K-12 education in the world in contrast with Turkey. The study mentions some common distance education characteristics on global scale and that education response of Turkey was highly effective compared to many others. The inferences can lead the education specialists in terms of helping their governments create smoother and more in-line situations for distance education for “new-normal” processes. © 2022, Milli Egitim. All Rights Reserved.